Author: Harish C Gupta
Translator(s): Harish C Gupta
Publisher: Advaita Ashram
Year: N/A
Language: English
Pages: 465
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-8185843186

Description

As Preface to our collective work on Swami Vivekananda, author decided to take his articles, Swami Vivekananda: The Indian Humanist, Democrat and patriot published almost a quarter of a century back in Swami Vivekananda Centenary Memorial Volume brought out by Swami Vivekananda Centenary Committee from Calcutta in 1963. He has deliberately not changed anything in this article for two reasons. First, for showing that our main assessments of Swami Vivekananda, our opinions on his views and his work have since remained the same, and have only been depended, expanded, and of course, defined more precisely and accurately.

And second, because the publication of this article in a authoritative Indian work, as also Swami Vivekananda birth centenary celebrations in USSR, gave an impetus to further work in our country on the study of his heritage along with a study of the views of Ramakrishna. In their studies of the problem, the Soviet scholars take their cue from the Great Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, who was the first to take note of these two eminent leaders of Indian spiritual culture and to strive to popularize their humanist views in Russia before the Revolution.

The authors of the book hope that this book will be of interest and use to Indian readers, to all who are interested in the personality of Swami Vivekananda, in his humanist ideas and views, his contribution to the struggle of Indian people for spiritual decolonization, for peace, democracy, and progress.

Contents

FOREWORD: SWAMI HIRANMAYANANDA

PREFACE: E P CHELISHEV

O V MEZENTSEVA
History of Study in Russia of Religious-Philosophical Heritage of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda

A A TRACHEVA
Role of Swami Vivekananda in Reformation of Religious Organization of Hinduism

E P CHELISHEV
Neo-Velantist Ethics of Swami Vivekananda

V S KOSTYUCHENKO
Vedanta and the Problem of Correlation of Indian and European Cultures

E N KOMAROV
Modern Views of Swami Vivekananda in the Context of Enlightenment Ideology of India

A D LITMAN
Swami Vivekanandas Ideas of Enlightenment

A P GNATYUK-DANILCHUK
Tolstoy and Vivekananda

V S KOSTYUCHENKO
Conception of Neo-Vedantism

E P CHELISHEV
Swami Vivekananda-The Great Indian Humanist, Democrat, and Patriot

V S KOSTYUCHENKO
Philosophical Teaching of Swami Vivekananda

R B RYBAKOV
Bourgeois Reformation of Hinduism